TweetMal Lee The COVID -19 experience, coupled with the transition to the more networked mode is already shaping as a watershed moment in the history of schooling. The pandemic alerted the world to the historic transformation underway, accelerated the transition, forced teachers, students, parents and schools to pool their resources and collaborate in the teaching, …
Category Archives: System wide digital school transformation
Transitioning from Traditional to Networked Schooling
Tweet Transitioning from Traditional to Networked Schooling Mal Lee Schooling worldwide is moving inexorably from its traditional, largely stand-alone, strongly paper based mode to one that is increasingly networked and digital. The extent of the transition has already been profound, even in the more conservative of schools, far more than most likely have realised, on …
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A Century of the Standard Model of Schooling
TweetMal Lee 2020 marked a century’s use of the standard model of schooling. Standardised across the developed world from around 1920 the core elements of the model adopted by schools then remain largely unchanged a 100 plus years on – it long being accepted as the norm globally. It is very easy to forget how long …
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COVID -19 and Digital Schooling
Tweet Sharing the experience Mal Lee Do you have a school, education authority, government review of how the school/s handled the COVID – 19 lockdown that we can share? Indeed if you would like to publish a reflective on your school’s experience in going digital we’d be delighted to publish those thoughts. Simply email Mal …
Corona Virus, Schools and the Window of Opportunity
TweetMal Lee Overnight the corona virus has obliged society and the educational decision makers to rethink the nature of schooling in a connected world – in a way few other events have. There is a societal focus on the role of schooling, and online education the world has rarely seen. It has opened the window …
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The Uniqueness of Sustained School Organisational Change
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The art of sustaining, and in time revitalising core organisational change in schools, and school systems is unique; markedly different to that in other organisations. It is an emerging reality all interested in school development should consider. While there are many similarities to all other organisations in the sustaining of …
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Is Core System Wide School Change Possible, and Sustainable?
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The short answer is yes, on both counts. But it is extremely rare, far rarer than most governments, politicians, the media and educational leaders would have you believe. Historically one will struggle to find an education authority, local, provincial or national, anywhere in the world that has achieved core …
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Is Sustained Core School Change Possible?
TweetI An alert for those wanting to lead a digital school. Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The historic, universal, unwritten assumptions are that fundamental school change is not only possible, but is desired by those in authority and can be readily sustained. Underpinning virtually every education plan and staff development program in the last century …
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Ecosystems within Ecosystems
TweetDigital Schools Growing Their Community Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In contemplating the digital evolution of your school and the creation of the desired school ecosystem appreciate that as your school’s digital ecosystem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem) grows so too will it increasingly interact with other ecosystems, local, regional and national unwittingly assisting those respective communities grow, while …
Thriving on Chaos and Constant Evolution
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie In observing the workings of the pathfinder schools that have normalised the use of the digital one is struck by the palpable excitement, the professionalism of the staff, their quest for continued enhancement, the embrace of change, the mess and seeming chaos, the social networking, the belief that anything is …